Re: It's 11pm. Do you know where your trams are?

[Dave McL <davemcl@iprolink.co.nz>]

Kate & Andrew wrote:
 
> Track work occured last weekend and this weekend (Bourke & Spencer Street
> curve was replaced!)

That didn't last long. 11 years? Some of the trackwork of recent times 
seems really to have been done on the cheap. On my trip last 
August/September I saw numerous examples of relatively recent in-concrete
track badly cracked. Among the worst was out at Footscray where some of 
the Droop Street concrete has come totally away. There were a lot of 
cracks in the most recent East Burwood extension, too.

Do they water down the concrete these days to save money?
 
Dave McL
Auckland New Zealand


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